In modern non-poetic use, this postposition is mostly used only with inherently directional nouns (such as in שמאלה ‎(smóla, “left, leftward, to the left”), from שמאל ‎(smol, “left, the left, left hand”)), and in a few fixed expressions (such as הַבַּיְתָה ‎(habáyta, “homeward”)).